Projects

BEAMS is an EU Research and Development project funded by the EC in the context of the 7th Framework Program. Its strategic goal is the development of an advanced, integrated management system which enables energy efficiency in buildings and special infrastructures from a holistic perspective. The project is developing an open interoperability gateway that will allow the management of diverse, heterogeneous sources and loads, some of them typically present nowadays in spaces of public use (e.g. public lighting, ventilation, air conditioning), some others emergent and to be widespread over the next years (e.g. electric vehicles and photovoltaic installations). BEAMS will be a user driven, demonstration orientes project, where evidence of zhe energy and CO2 savings achieved by the project’s technologies will be collected. The approach will be validated through the development of a facility management environment to be deployed in two pilot sites:

The main objective of the project is to develop innovative solutions for better monitoring the indoor environment quality and to investigate active and passive systems for improving it. The focus lies on cost-effective solutions to ensure a wide application of the developed systems. Source & further information

EcoGrid EU is an EU-funded project, establishing the first prototype of the future intelligent grid in the world. The intelligent power system, also called Smart Grid, will be established on Bornholm, and the results of the project can be used worldwide. The key objective of the project is to demonstrate how smart grid technology and ordinary electricity customers on the light of information on electricity price can contribute actively to balance a power system with a high share of varying environmentally-friendly electricity generation, especially wind power. About one in every ten households on Bornholm as well as small and medium-sized companies will be involved in the project. In 2012 advanced meters and other smart appliances will be installed at the homes and companies of the participants on Bornholm. These appliances will enable them to control their consumption more or less automatically down to a five-minute basis based on the principle: It must be smart, easy and “convenient” to be a price conscious and environmentally-friendly electricity customer in the future “smart grid-society”.

The objective of “PeerEnergyCloud” is to research and develop cloud-based technologies for such a platform. This includes the establishment of a virtual marketplace for local power trading as well as the design and development of innovative recording and forecast methods within a so-called “micro grid”. The integration of local sensors and actuators at the end user locations, via a specially secured fiber optic cable, enables the “smart micro grid cloud services” to access usage data in real-time, which can be used for the purpose of generating forecasts, for example.

S4ECoB aims to monitor and process sounds and noises for determination of occupancy to improve building energy management (BEM) and efficiency. The S4ECoB platform will integrate other existing heating, ventilation, air conditioning and lighting (HVACL) systems. For instance, solid state lighting, heat exchange, photovoltaic plant or blind control will be integrated with other ICT-based subsystems (e.g. for security, protection, gas-detection, safety and comfort mainly). The control and management of automation and conditioning systems will be based on advanced algorithms. S4ECoB will include low cost and energy-efficient audio and occupancy sensors in adaptable and scalable network architecture to public buildings and surroundings that can employ energy-harvesting techniques to power electronics devices such as LED lighting and actuators, variable speed motors and pumps. The S4ECoB will record and report the operations of control and quantify the energy savings, CO2 footprint reduction and calculate the return of investment (ROI) and pay-back time of the project.

An intelligent management of energy in such a local grid would enable customers to participate in the energy market and even contribute to the stability of the power grid. The problem is that such an energy management requires fine grained infrastructure and expensive hardware. Today, this limits applicability of energy management to large consumers in the industrial and commercial sector. The objective of SmartCoDe is to enable the application of demand side management and smart metering in private and small commercial buildings and neighbourhoods.

News

23 September 2015
Virtual demonstrator Langenfeld is now operational
Based on the specifications of the dwellings in Langenfeld, a virtual demonstrator was created that allows to experiment with the available demand response potentials. This demonstrator uses dynamic thermal simulation tools that are used for providing qualitative information on the thermal performance of energy systems and buildings. All buildings are represented in a simulation environment and backed up by real-world monitoring data. The goal of the virtual demonstrator is to prove the methodology and show replicability of the solution.

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17 September 2015
EEPOS Virtual Demonstrator workshop/presentation in Municipality of Asparrena
On 17th of September 2015, a workshop/presentation about EEPOS project was carried out in the Municipality of Asparrena, at the Town Hall located in Araia. In the workshop/presentation participated around 26 people, Mayors or Councillors of different municipalities located nearby Asparrena (17 people) as well as common inhabitants of Asparrena (9 people).
The workshop/presentation lasted for almost 2 hours, with a short introduction of the EEPOS project and consortium (15 mins) done by Arkaitz Gobantes from the municipality of Asparrena and an explanation of the Virtual Prototype developed in Asparrena, describing its results and conclusion (45 mins), explained by David Lanceta from Solintel.